LEADER 04254nam 2200673 450 001 9910465636603321 005 20210430211920.0 010 $a1-5017-0398-6 010 $a1-5017-0399-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703997 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656720 035 $a(EBL)4526404 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001669303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16461257 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14828835 035 $a(PQKB)11302220 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001599458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4526404 035 $a(OCoLC)948756592 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51408 035 $a(DE-B1597)478524 035 $a(OCoLC)979911498 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4526404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248720 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL951831 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656720 100 $a20160904h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe soul of pleasure $esentiment and sensation in nineteenth-century American mass entertainment /$fDavid Monod 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-5017-0238-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Enter Sentimentality: The Origins of the Entertainment Revolution --$tChapter 2. Laugh and Grow Fat: Minstrelsy and Burlesque --$tChapter 3. Looking Through: Sentimental Aesthetics --$tChapter 4. The Democratization of Entertainment: The Concert Saloons --$tChapter 5. Any Dodge Is Fair to Raise a Good Sensation: The Danger and Promise of Sensationalism --$tChapter 6. Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville --$tChapter 7. Spectacle and Nostalgia on the Road: Traveling Shows --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aShow business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment. The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture-minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows-and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America's first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment's variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure. 606 $aPerforming arts$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmusements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPerforming arts$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aAmusements$xHistory 676 $a791.097309034 700 $aMonod$b David$f1960-$01055079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465636603321 996 $aThe soul of pleasure$92488203 997 $aUNINA